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{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1515;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\nowidctlpar\lang2057\kerning1\i\f0\fs24 Which character meets his fate at Abbeville, France?\par
Mr Karswell, John Harrington, Count Magnus\par
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What nickname is given to the villain in Casting the Runes?\par
The Abbot of Lufford, The Bishop of Stafford, The Canon of Burford\par
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What is written on the whistle in 'Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you my lad'?\par
'Who is this who is coming?', 'Whistle and I'll come', 'If you don't come to me...'\par
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Where does Mr Anderson stay in 'Number 13'?\par
The Golden Lion, The Globe Inn, The Viborg Hilton\par
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In which story does the protagonist visit the Rigsarkiv?\par
Number 13, Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, Count Magnus\par
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Who is the 'estate carpenter and general handyman' met in 'Martin's Close'?\par
John Hill, Mr Cooper, Mr Worby\par
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Which story features the spirits of Phoebe Stanley and Giovanni Paoli?\par
Lost Hearts, Wailing Well, Rats\par
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'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' features a cross made from how many eyes?\par
6,7,11\par
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Which story features the book 'Liber Nigrae Peregrinationis'?\par
Count Magnus, The Tractate Middoth, The Uncommon Prayer-book\par
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Which story features quotes from Job, John and Zechariah?\par
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, An Episode of Cathedral History\par
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What is the surname of the narrators school friend in 'A School Story'?\par
McLeod, O'Brian, Judkins\par
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How many locks are on the tomb of Count Magnus?\par
1,3,6\par
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Where do the events described in 'The Ash-tree' take place?\par
Castringham Hall, Westfield Hall, Aswarby Hall\par
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How many times is the picture observed to change in the 'The Mezzotint'?\par
2 times, 4 times, 5 times\par
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Where does Mr James Denton purchase Mr Poynter's Diary?\par
Robins's, Sotherby's, Bonhams\par
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Which story relates to events said to have taken place in Islington in 1718?\par
Two Doctors, Casting the Runes, An Evenings Entertainment\par
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In which story does Lady Mary Hervey faint outright?\par
The Ash-tree, The Rose Garden, The Residence at Whitminster\par
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In which story is the son of an Earl found clinging to a church door?\par
The Residence at Whitminster, An Episode of Cathedral History, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas\par
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In which story does Mr Ayloff argue with Dean Burscough?\par
An Episode of Cathedral History, Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral\par
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Where does the protagonist spend Christmas in 'The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance'?\par
The King's Head, The New Inn, The Bear\par
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Which story features strange occurences on 'Gallows Hill'?\par
A View from a Hill, A Neighbours Landmark, An Evenings Entertainment\par
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In which room at the Golden Lion does Mr Anderson stay?\par
Number 12, Number 13, Number 14\par
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Which M.R. James character meets his end in Belchamp St Paul?\par
Mr Wraxall, Mr Paxton, John Eldred\par
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In which story do we meet Lady Wardrop?\par
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance, The Rose Garden, The Uncommon Prayer-book\par
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What is the name of the ill-fated poacher in 'The Mezzotint'?\par
Gawdy, Eldred, Fanshawe\par
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Which story features a drama unfolding in Illbridge House?\par
The Haunted Dolls' House, Rats, The Diary of Mr Poynter\par
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What does Mr James Denton have created for his home in 'The Diary of Mr Poynter'?\par
A set of curtains, A stained glass window, A hedge maze\par
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Which story takes place in 'a decayed town on the spurs of the Pyrenees'?\par
Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, Count Magnus, A View from a Hill\par
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From whom does Mr Dennistoun acquire Canon Alberic's Scrapbook?\par
A Sacristan, A Choir Master, A Bishop\par
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How much does Dennistoun pay for Canon Alberic's Scrapbook?\par
250 francs, 25 francs, 2500 francs\par
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What instrument did the boy 'Jevanny' leave behind after he disappeared in 'Lost Hearts'?\par
A Hurdy-gurdy, A Mouth Organ, a Penny Whistle\par
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On what date does Mr Abney die in 'Lost Hearts'?\par
24th March 1812, 1st May 1812, 31 October 1812\par
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In 'The Ash-tree', Castringham Hall is located in...\par
Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex\par
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In which story does a cat fall into a hollow tree?\par
The Ash-tree, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Malice of Inanimate Objects\par
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In 'Number 13', Mr Anderson is troubled by the disappearance and subsequent reappearance of what?\par
His portmanteau, His bed sheets, His diary\par
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In which story does the protagonist turn down an offer of hospitality from the De la Gardie family?\par
Count Magnus, Rats, A Warning to the Curious\par
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Which story mentions 'Mamilius, the best child in Shakespeare'?\par
There was a man dwelt by a churchyard, Wailing Well, Lost Hearts\par
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In 'After Dark in the Playing Fields' the narrator holds a nocturnal conversation with...\par
An owl, A bat, a fox\par
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Which M.R. James story features a troop of Boy Scouts?\par
Wailing Well, A School Story, The Haunted Dolls' House\par
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Which was the last M.R. James story to be published in his lifetime?\par
The Malice of Inanimate Objects, Rats, A Vignette\par
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Where was M.R. James born?\par
Goodnestone, Kent, Great Livermere, Suffolk, Great Malvern, Worcestershire\par
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Which character dreams of a pink hand reaching out of her linen draw?\par
Mary Oldys, Miss Cooper, Mrs Anstruther\par
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In which fictional cathedral town is 'An Episode of Cathedral History' set?\par
Southminster, Barchester, Cloisterham\par
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In 'The Uncommon Prayer-book', what does Mr Avery's son-in-law compare to a braying donkey?\par
Gregorian chanting, A tolling church bell, The wind at night\par
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In which story is the protagonist puzzled by his neighbours penchant for nocturnal dancing?\par
Number 13, The Mezzotint, A Warning to the Curious\par
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What does Paxton find buried in the dunes in 'A Warning to the Curious'?\par
An Anglo-saxon crown, A Whistle, A Skull\par
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Who was the last protector of the crown in 'A Warning to the Curious'?\par
William Ager, William Oldys, William Martin\par
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In which story does the protagonist encounter an advert for Mr Lamplough's Pyretic Saline?\par
Casting the Runes, Tractate Middoth, A Neighbour's Landmark\par
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Which station does Mr Dunning catch the train to Dover from in 'Casting the Runes'\par
Croydon West, Charing Cross, Maidstone\par
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Which character was said to 'put the Golden Legend' and the 'Golden Bough' exactly on par"?\par
Mr Karswell, Mr Wraxall, Mr Worby\par
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In 'An Episode of Cathedral History', what does the young Evans push into the chink in the tomb?\par
Some sheet music, A piece of cloth, A pen knife\i0\par
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\i In which story does a doctor call his ex-servant a 'tickleminded fellow'?\par
Two Doctors, Martin's Close, The Tractate Middoth\i0\par
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\i What shape does the figure in the Mezzotint have on it's back?\par
A white cross, A white star, A white moon\i0\par
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\i In which story does the protagonist embark on a golfing holiday?\par
Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad, A Warning to the Curious, A View from a Hill\i0\par
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\i Which stories events take place between the year 1690 and 1754?\par
The Ash-tree, The Residence at Whitminster, Two Doctors\i0\par
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\i In which story does something drop off a bed "with a soft plump, like a kitten"?\par
The Ash-tree, Casting the Runes, The Diary of Mr Poynter\i0\par
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\i In 'Number 13', what item does Mr Anderson observe to be inscribed \lquote 1 Bog Mose, Cap. 22\rquote ?\par
A cast-iron stove, A bedstead, A portmanteau\i0\par
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\i Which story does M.R. James claim happened to his cousin?\par
Number 13, Count Magnus, A School Story\i0\par
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\i In which story does the protagonist travel home via canal-boat, ship and finally by closed fly?\par
Count Magnus, Number 13, Casting the Runes\i0\par
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\i What is Parkins' profession in 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'?\par
Professor of Ontography, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Archaeology\i0\par
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\i Where does the protagonist stay in 'Oh Whistle...'?\par
The Globe Inn, Burnstow, The Bear, Aldeburgh, The New Inn, Sampford Courtney\i0\par
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\i What annoys Parkins' about his holiday accommodation in 'Oh Whistle...'?\par
His room has two beds, His room has no bath, His room has no fireplace\i0\par
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\i What is the name of Parkins' golfing partner in 'Oh Whistle...'?\f1\line f0 Colonel Wilson, Captain Hastings, Sargeant Bowles\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which M.R. James story begins by quoting nearly a full page of latin, which the protagonist then translates?\f0\par
\f1 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, Tractate Middoth, The Uncommon Prayer-book\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which story features a puzzle hidden in a trio of stained glass windows?\f0\par
\f1 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, An Episode of Cathedral History, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which is the only M.R. James story to take place in Germany?\f0\par
\f1 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, Count Magnus, The Tractate Middoth\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which story features 'Mr Gregory, the Rector of Parsbury'?\f0\par
\f1 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The Uncommon Prayer-book, There was a man dwelt by a churchyard\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 What is the name of the teacher in 'A School Story'?\f0\par
\f1 Samson, Dawlish, McLeod\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 In 'A School Story' the teacher is told to 'Remember the well among...'\f0\par
\f1 '...the four yews.' , '...the hedge maze.' , '...the seven eyes.'\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 In which story is a voice heard whispering "Pull, pull. I'll push, you pull"?\f0\par
\f1 The Rose Garden, Martin's Close, The Experiment\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 In which story is a character troubled at night by "those horrible owls and those men talking and laughing in the shrubbery"?\f0\par
\f1 The Rose Garden, An Episode of Cathedral History, After Dark in the Playing Fields\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Where do Mr and Mrs Anstruther flee to in 'The Rose Garden'?\f0\par
\f1 Brighton, Margate, London\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which M.R. James villain is noted for his 'Piccadilly weepers'?\f0\par
\f1 Mr John Eldred, Mr Karswell, Dr Abell\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 What is the occupation of Mr Garrett in 'The Tractate Middoth'?\f0\par
\f1 Librarian, Bookseller, Author\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Where does Mr Garrett in 'The Tractate Middoth' first meet his future wife?\f0\par
\f1 On a train, In a library, In a garden\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which character is said to have been buried in a field, sitting at a table?\f0\par
\f1 Dr Rant, William Ager, Mrs Mothersole\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which M.R. James character meets his end a short distance from Bretfield manor?\f0\par
\f1 John Eldred, Mr Wraxall, Squire Martin\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which is the only M.R. James story to conclude with the marriage of the protagonist?\f0\par
\f1 The Tractate Middoth, The Uncommon Prayer-book, The Rose Garden\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 What is the name of Mr Karswell's paper which is rejected at the start of 'Casting the Runes'?\f0\par
\f1 The Truth of Alchemy, The Black Pilgrimage, A History of Staffordshire\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 In which country is Lufford Abbey, home of Mr Karswell in 'Casting the Runes'?\f0\par
\f1 Warwickshire, Suffolk, Essex\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Where does Edward Dunning have his first encounter with Mr Karswell in 'Casting the Runes'?\f0\par
\f1 The British Museum, The British Library, Cambridge University Library\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 In 'Casting the Runes' what does Edward Dunning find under his pillow?\f0\par
\f1 A mouth with hair, A pink hand, A slip of paper\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 In which story do two characters stay at the Lord Warden Hotel, Dover?\f0\par
\f1 Casting the Runes, Count Magnus, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas\i0\f0\par
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\i\f1 Which story begins by quoting an obituary from the 'Gentleman's Magazine'?\f0\par
\f1 The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance, Rats\i0\f0\par
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\i In Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, John Austn tells the sinful to \ldblquote Be ware/lest he be fetcht away/By day or night/But chiefly when the wind blows high/In a night of...\rdblquote\par
\ldblquote January\rdblquote , \ldblquote February\rdblquote , \ldblquote March\rdblquote\i0\par
\i MR James was a devotee of which 19\up10 th\up0  century novel?\par
Turn of the Screw, Edwin Drood, Dracula\i0\par
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\i MR James said that there were no better ghost stories than those by:\par
Charles Dickens, HP Lovecraft, JS Le Fanu\i0\par
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\i MR James ranked which of these as the best ghost story?\par
The Watcher, The Monkey's Paw, Squire Toby's Will\par
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\i MR James' memoirs were called \ldblquote Eton and King's: Recollections, Mostly...\rdblquote\par
\ldblquote Frivolous\rdblquote , \ldblquote Trivial\rdblquote , \ldblquote Silly\rdblquote\i0\par
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\i Whose fairy stories did MR James translate in 1930?\par
The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Charles Perrault \i0\par
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\i Which was MR James' prep school?\par
Eton, Temple Grove, Habadashers\i0\par
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\i MR James first performed his ghost stories at which Cambridge group of friends?\par
The Kit Kat Club, The Bullingdon Club, The Chitchat Society \i0\par
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\i MR James wasn't much of a sportsman, but he did like...\par
Football, Snooker, Cycling\i0\par
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\i James McBryde's wife was a lifelong friend of MR James. Her name was:\par
Jane, Gwen, Alice\i0\par
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\i Who did the young MR James get in trouble for writing to?\par
The Prime  Minister, the Queen, Archbishop of Canterbury\i0\par
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\kerning0\i\f1 Complete the following quote from MR James's successor as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum: "I found it (the Fitzwilliam) a [missing word], I left it a museum".\line "Sewer","hovel","mess" (check quote!)\i0\line\line\i Michael Cox and XX Pfaff are best known as MR James'...\line Editors,Biographers,Tutors\i0\line\line\i Complete the name of MR James' famous scholarly work: "The (missing word) New Testament"\line Revised, Apocryphal, Evangelical\i0\line\line\i Night of The Demon is a dramatisation of which MR James story?\line Canon Alberic's Scrapbook,The Ash Tree,Casting the Runes\i0\line\line\i Which song by Kate Bush includes samples from the MR James inspired film 'Night of the Demon'?\line Running Up that Hill, Hounds of Love, Babooshka\i0\line\line\i Which of the following was NOT filmed as part of the 1970s BBC Ghost Story for Christmas series?\line Lost Hearts,The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral,Whistle and I'll Come to You\line\kerning1\i0\f0\par
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(above questions added before 16/03/13)\par
First:\par
"St Bertrand de Comminges is a decayed town on the spurs of the Pyrenees, not very far from Toulouse, and still nearer to Bagn\'e8res-de-Luchon."\par
Canon Alberics's Scrapbook , Count Magnus , A View from a Hill\par
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" The drawing was photographed and then burnt by Dennistoun on the day when he left Comminges on the occasion of his first visit. "\par
Canon Alberics's Scrapbook, The Mezzotint, The Diary of Mr Poynter\par
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First:\par
"It was, as far as I can ascertain, in September of the year 1811 that a post-chaise drew up before the door of Aswarby Hall,1 in the heart of Lincolnshire."\par
Lost Hearts, Tractate Middoth, The Ash-tree\par
Last:\par
"But Stephen Elliott\rquote s study of the papers I have quoted led him to a very different conclusion."\par
Lost Hearts, Casting the Runes, A School Story\par
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First:\par
"Some time ago I believe I had the pleasure of telling you the story of an adventure which happened to a friend of mine by the name of Dennistoun,1 during his pursuit of objects of art for the museum at Cambridge."\par
The Mezzotint, Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You\par
Last:\par
"Mr Britnell knew nothing of it save that he was sure it was uncommon; and that, though carefully watched, it has never been known to change again."\par
The Mezzotint, The Dolls' House, The Residence at Whitminster\par
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First:\par
"Everyone who has travelled over Eastern England knows the smaller country-houses with which it is studded"\par
The Ash-tree, The Dolls' House, Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance\par
Last:\par
"...which was pronounced by those that examined it to be undoubtedly the body of a woman, and clearly dead for a period of fifty years."\par
The Ash-tree, The Fenstanton Witch, Martin's Close\par
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First:\par
"Among the towns of Jutland, Viborg justly holds a high place."\par
Number 13, Count Magnus, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas\par
Last:\par
"That same afternoon he told me what you have read; but he refused to draw any inferences from it, and to assent to any that I drew for him."\par
Number 13, The Uncommon Prayerbook, Casting the Runes\par
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First:\par
"By what mean the papers out of which I have made a connected story came into my hands is the last point which the reader will learn from these pages."\par
Count Magnus, Martin's Close, The Story of A disappearance and an Appearance\par
Last:\par
"It had stood empty since 1863, and there seemed no prospect of letting it; so I had it pulled down, and the papers of which I have given you an abstract were found in a forgotten cupboard under the window in the best bedroom."\par
Count Magnus, The Rose Garden, Number 13\par
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First:\par
"\lquote I suppose you will be getting away pretty soon, now Full term is over, Professor,\rquote  said a person not in the story to the Professor of Ontography"\par
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, A Warning to the Curious, An Episode of Cathedral History\par
Last:\par
"His nerves, too, have suffered: he cannot even now see a surplice hanging on a door quite unmoved, and the spectacle of a scarecrow in a field late on a winter afternoon has cost him more than one sleepless night."\par
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, The Diary of Mr Poynter, Wailing Well\par
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First:\par
"\lquote I suppose I shall have to translate this,\rquote  said the antiquary to himself, as he finished copying the above lines from that rather rare and exceedingly diffuse book, the Sertum Steinfeldense Norbertinum."\par
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, Tractate Middoth, The Uncommon Prayerbook\par
Last:\par
"It was a horrid, grotesque shape\emdash perhaps more like a toad than anything else, and there was a label by it inscribed with the two words, \ldblquote Depositum custodi\rdblquote ."\par
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, A Warning to the Curious, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral\par
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First:\par
"Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days."\par
A School Story, Lost Hearts, Rats\par
Last:\par
"\lquote I think I can,\rquote  said my friend, holding it to the light (but he read it without much difficulty); \lquote it seems to be G.W.S., 24 July, 1865.\rquote "\par
A School Story, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, An Evenings Entertainment\par
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First:\par
"Mr and Mrs Anstruther were at breakfast in the parlour of Westfield Hall, in the county of Essex."\par
The Rose Garden, A Neighbour's Landmark, The Ash-tree\par
Last:\par
"'Here it is, you see\emdash quieta non movere. I suppose\emdash\emdash  Well, it is rather hard to say exactly what I do suppose.\rquote "\par
The Rose Garden, Tractate Middoth, A School Story\par
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First:\par
"Towards the end of an autumn afternoon an elderly man with a thin face and grey Piccadilly weepers pushed open the swing-door leading into the vestibule of a certain famous library..."\par
Tractate Middoth, Casting the Runes, The Uncommon Prayer-book\par
Last:\par
"There is no great difficulty in imagining the steps by which William Garrett, from being an assistant in a great library, attained to his present position of prospective owner of Bretfield Manor, now in the occupation of his mother-in-law, Mrs Mary Simpson."\par
Tractate Middoth, The Diary of Mr Poynter, Two Doctors\par
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First:\par
"April 15th, 190\emdash . Dear Sir,\emdash I am requested by the Council of the \emdash\emdash  Association to return to you the draft of a paper on The Truth of Alchemy..."\par
Casting the Runes, The Residence at Whitminster, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral\par
Last:\par
"Also, after a judicious interval, Harrington repeated to Dunning something of what he had heard his brother say in his sleep: but it was not long before Dunning stopped him."\par
Casting the Runes, Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, A Warning to the Curious\par
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First:\par
"This matter began, as far as I am concerned, with the reading of a notice in the obituary section of the Gentleman\rquote s Magazine for an early year in the nineteenth century..."\par
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, Mr Humphrey's and his Inheritance, Casting the Runes\par
Last:\par
"\lquote Oh, I forgot,\rquote  said he. \lquote The old man told me it was so ugly and frightened his children so much that he burnt it.\rquote "\par
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, An Evening's Entertainment, The Diary of Mr Poynter\par
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First:\par
"Some few years back I was staying with the rector of a parish in the West, where the society to which I belong owns property."\par
Martin's Close, The Ash-tree, A View from a Hill\par
Last:\par
"It was not so, they believed, at North Tawton, but here it was reckoned to be unlucky. However, why that view was taken no one had the shadow of an idea."\par
Martin's Close, There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard, Oh, Whistle\par
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First:\par
"About fifteen years ago, on a date late in August or early in September, a train drew up at Wilsthorpe, a country station in Eastern England."\par
Mr Humphrey's and his Inheritance, Lost Hearts, The Residence at Whitminster\par
Last:\par
"One of the oddest things in the whole series of transactions is that the book which contained the Parable has entirely disappeared. Humphreys has never been able to find it since he copied out the passage to send to Lady Wardrop."\par
Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance, The Rose Garden, Tractate Middoth\par
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First:\par
"Dr Ashton\emdash Thomas Ashton, Doctor of Divinity\emdash sat in his study, habited in a dressing-gown, and with a silk cap on his shaven head\emdash his wig being for the time taken off and placed on its block on a side table."\par
Last:\par
"Whitminster has a Bluebeard\rquote s chamber, and, I am rather inclined to suspect, a Jack-in-the-box, awaiting some future occupant of the residence of the senior prebendary."\par
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First:\par
"The sale-room of an old and famous firm of book auctioneers in London is, of course, a great meeting-place for collectors, librarians, and dealers: not only when an auction is in progress, but perhaps even more notably when books that are coming on for sale are upon view."\par
Last:\par
"Mr Cattell\rquote s comment upon what he heard of the story took the form of a quotation from Shakespeare. You may guess it without difficulty. It began with the words \lquote There are more things\rquote ."\par
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First:\par
"There was once a learned gentleman who was deputed to examine and report upon the archives of the Cathedral of Southminster."\par
Last:\par
"It was from the Vulgate of Isaiah xxxiv. and consisted merely of the three words - IBI CUBAVIT LAMIA."\par
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First:\par
"The letters which I now publish were sent to me recently by a person who knows me to be interested in ghost stories. There is no doubt about their authenticity."\par
Last:\par
"I am coming to you as soon as I can after the funeral. I must tell you when we meet what I think of it all."\par
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First:\par
"It is a very common thing, in my experience, to find papers shut up in old books; but one of the rarest things to come across any such that are at all interesting."\par
Last:\par
"The account is blunt and terrible. I shall not quote it. A dealer in the North of London suffered heavy penalties as a receiver of stolen goods in connexion with the affair."\par
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First:\par
"\lquote I suppose you get stuff of that kind through your hands pretty often?\rquote  said Mr Dillet, as he pointed with his stick to an object which shall be described when the time comes."\par
Last:\par
"Awaiting an offer from the other side of the Atlantic, the dolls\rquote  house still reposes, carefully sheeted, in a loft over Mr Dillet\rquote s stables, whither Collins conveyed it on the day when Mr Dillet started for the sea coast."\par
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First:\par
"Mr Davidson was spending the first week in January alone in a country town."\par
Last:\par
"The police have their own methods of keeping certain matters out of the newspapers; otherwise, it can hardly be supposed that Watkins\rquote s evidence about Mr Poschwitz\rquote s death could have failed to furnish a good many head-lines of a startling character to the press."\par
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First:\par
"Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. "\par
Last:\par
"...that bed-time came and passed, without his having an opportunity to revert to the Literary Supplement of The Times."\par
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First:\par
"How pleasant it can be, alone in a first-class railway carriage, on the first day of a holiday that is to be fairly long, to dawdle through a bit of English country that is unfamiliar, stopping at every station."\par
Last:\par
"\lquote I\rquote m not sure,\rquote  said Fanshawe, \lquote there is that picture of Fulnaker Priory Church.\rquote "\par
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First:\par
"The place on the east coast which the reader is asked to consider is Seaburgh."\par
Last:\par
"Paxton was so totally without connections that all the inquiries that were subsequently made ended in a No Thoroughfare. And I have never been at Seaburgh, or even near it, since."\par
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"Nothing is more common form in old-fashioned books than the description of the winter fireside, where the aged grandam narrates to the circle of children that hangs on her lips story after story of ghosts and fairies, and inspires her audience with a pleasing terror."\par
Last:\par
"The door closes, and granny, after listening intently for a minute or two, resumes her knitting. The Squire still slumbers."\par
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First:\par
"This, you know, is the beginning of the story about sprites and goblins which Mamilius, the best child in Shakespeare, was telling to his mother the queen, and the court ladies, when the king came in with his guards and hurried her off to prison."\par
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"...by which time he too had so far recovered as to assert, in bidding good night to the company, that he knew another story quite three times as dreadful as that one, and would tell it on the first opportunity that offered."\par
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First:\par
"\lquote And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you\rquote d see the ragged, mouldy bedclothes a-heaving and a-heaving like seas.\rquote "\par
Last:\par
"Then he seemed to recollect himself and said: \lquote I beg your pardon. Very absurd, but I can\rquote t help doing that, for a particular reason.\rquote  What that reason was I heard some days afterwards, and you have heard now."\par
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First:\par
"The hour was late and the night was fair. I had halted not far from Sheeps\rquote  Bridge and was thinking about the stillness, only broken by the sound of the weir, when a loud tremulous hoot just above me made me jump."\par
Last:\par
"Yes, I certainly prefer the daylight population of the Playing Fields to that which comes there after dark."\par
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First:\par
"In the year 19\emdash  there were two members of the Troop of Scouts attached to a famous school, named respectively Arthur Wilcox and Stanley Judkins."\par
Last:\par
"If it has a moral, that moral is, I trust, obvious: if it has none, I do not well know how to help it."\par
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First:\par
"A New Year\rquote s Eve Ghost Story (Full Directions will be found at the End)"\par
Last:\par
"Then take of the earth of the grave at the dead bodyes hed and knitt it in a lynnen clothe and put itt under thi right eare and sleape theruppon: and wheresoever thou lyest or slepest, that night he will come and tell thee trewlie in waking or sleping."\par
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First:\par
"The malice of inanimate objects is a subject upon which an old friend of mine was fond of dilating, and not without justification."\par
Last:\par
"And do they not, finally, almost force upon us the conclusion that, like Squire Korbes, Mr Burton must have been either a very wicked or a singularly unfortunate man?"\par
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First:\par
"You are asked to think of the spacious garden of a country rectory,1 adjacent to a park of many acres, and separated therefrom by a belt of trees of some age which we knew as the Plantation. "\par
Last:\par
"...whereas now only at rare intervals in a series of years does one cross their paths and become aware of them; and perhaps that is just as well for the peace of mind of simple people."\par
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